Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Article Summary – The M1 Abrams has defined U.S. armored power for four decades, from slaughtering Iraqi armor in Desert Storm to surviving IEDs...
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Article Summary – The M1 Abrams has defined U.S. armored power for four decades, from slaughtering Iraqi armor in Desert Storm to surviving IEDs...
Key Points and Summary – Post–Cold War cuts turned four Ohio-class boomers into fearsome SSGNs, each packing 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles in repurposed Trident...
Key Points and Summary – The MBT-70 was a bold U.S.–West German effort in the 1960s to build a revolutionary main battle tank with...
Key Point and Summary – Russia’s MiG-41, or PAK DP, is billed as a sixth-generation stealth interceptor meant to replace the MiG-31 with hypersonic...
Article Summary – The U.S. Navy’s SSN(X) is envisioned as the undersea “apex predator” of the 2040s, but shipyard bottlenecks and cost pressures have...
Article Summary – Today’s tailless, 6th-generation stealth fighters did not appear from nowhere. Lockheed Martin’s X-44 MANTA, conceived in 1999 as a “tailless F-22,”...
Key Points and Summary – China’s rumored JH-XX stealth bomber is being hyped as a regional game-changer, sitting between the J-20 fighter and H-20...
Article Summary – Talk of drones and AI “revolutionizing” warfare repeats the same RMA hype of the 1990s. Technologies like the B-21 Raider, unmanned...
Article Summary – The Soviet Alfa-class was a radical answer to a Cold War problem: sprint through NATO’s GIUK chokepoint, hunt U.S. carriers, and...
Article Summary – The A-12 Avenger II was the Navy’s bid to put a stealth strike jet on carrier decks after the F-117’s debut,...